Judicial Watch reported on Tuesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is operating a training camp just south of the US/Mexican border, near El Paso, Texas. Sources, idenfitied as a Mexican Army field grade officer and Mexican federal police inspector, told Judicial Watch that the camp is about 8 miles south of the border, just west of Ciudad Juarez in an area called “Anapra.”

Mexican officials also uncovered a second cell also west of Ciudad Juarez in Puerto Palomas, which is targeting the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming as a path to easily access the United States.

This report comes on top of previous reports Judicial Watch had received last summer from U.S. officials that ISIS was operating near the U.S.-Mexican border. Congressman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a member of the Armed Services Committee, also told Fox News last October that at least 10 ISIS affiliated fighters were caught trying to cross the border into Texas, according to his source in the Border Patrol. The Obama Administration denied that any known terrorists had been apprehended at the border at the time. Politifact Texas could not verify Hunter’s claim.

The training camp near Ciudad Juarez was uncovered during a joint operation of the Mexican Army and the Mexican federal police. The team discovered prayer rugs, documents in Arabic and Urdu, and plans for the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss military installation, which is located in El Paso. Fort Bliss is home to over 30,000 active duty soldiers, including the First Armored Division.

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Fort Bliss increased security measures last fall following reports of ISIS cells operating in the region. Gen. Jerry Boykin (Ret.) said at the time: “That means they’re getting a threat stream. Ft. Bliss had to have a clear and present threat.”

According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.

Mexican intelligence sources report that ISIS intends to exploit the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM (a US port-of-entry). The sources also say that ISIS has “spotters” located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations.